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the united states well let me correct myself the united states used to be america america it was a fantastic idea it was a unique idea unique in the world that's why everybody wanted to come to america but now it's no longer america because america is the idea and that idea has been. vanished from the geographical area known as the united states which is increasingly just one of two hundred other nation states that are covering the face of the globe skin disease so i'm very unhappy with the evolution of the u.s. what was the tipping point in your view where america was no longer america where you feel that freedom is been eroded more and more that's a very good question because you can make the argument that the united states or the idea of america which is what i prefer has been going downhill since just after its founding because you may recall that in seventeen ninety two not long after the country was in going downhill a long time well is the day they had arrived. yes. because in seven hundred ninety two they passed the alien and sedition acts which were horrible and. it basically made t
the united states well let me correct myself the united states used to be america america it was a fantastic idea it was a unique idea unique in the world that's why everybody wanted to come to america but now it's no longer america because america is the idea and that idea has been. vanished from the geographical area known as the united states which is increasingly just one of two hundred other nation states that are covering the face of the globe skin disease so i'm very unhappy with the...
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states army united states marine corps do you have any idea how dangerous this rule is you don't seem to have a plan mr romney you've shown us from london to libya that you're in over your head that's what scares me most for you mr romney it's about politics for us it's about finding our country defending our freedom we deserve a commander in chief to understand what's at stake what to chose you as commander in chief i don't think so i don't think so as a veteran i don't think so so i think it's particularly interesting that this is not coming from the obama campaign that the term project is going to see the obama campaign coming against mitt romney sam what are your thoughts and how they're going to this is going to play i think to the majority of the electorate i think president obama is probably going to win this debate i mean he can come out he can tout that he's under the iraq war you can tell that he's ending. he killed bin laden of course to his far left base to people like me. there's also the drone wars that he's going to be touting those would be all the stuff that his far l
states army united states marine corps do you have any idea how dangerous this rule is you don't seem to have a plan mr romney you've shown us from london to libya that you're in over your head that's what scares me most for you mr romney it's about politics for us it's about finding our country defending our freedom we deserve a commander in chief to understand what's at stake what to chose you as commander in chief i don't think so i don't think so as a veteran i don't think so so i think...
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united states government. united states here's the problem with that dr jackson and that is that their every time they set it takes to register to vote it always has to have to represent yourself in some way that the when you register to vote people believe you and then you know you sign things and then they check your signature on you come back but i believe. the supreme court. there we can. thanks a lot for the call appreciate it the point is that they keep raising the bar you know ok well now you know just having that idea that you're registered that's not enough now you've got to have id when you come to vote and oh by the way it can't just be ideas got to be photo id you know by the way it can't just be photo id it's got to be a particular type of photo id that doesn't work this in and i just i just see this is this is i mean we've played the clip many times on this program paul weyrich saying the leverage of the republicans goes up as a voting populace goes down that's what they're all about it's very ve
united states government. united states here's the problem with that dr jackson and that is that their every time they set it takes to register to vote it always has to have to represent yourself in some way that the when you register to vote people believe you and then you know you sign things and then they check your signature on you come back but i believe. the supreme court. there we can. thanks a lot for the call appreciate it the point is that they keep raising the bar you know ok well...
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i think well i think this is a very delicate moment in the united states as well isn't it and what i really fear over here is that america running into the populism type of policies and basically that's exactly what happened in japan in what is happening in japan and look where it's brought a species almost two decades we call it last decade but it's almost to last decade so i would say that again it goes back to the very first thing that we were talking about it's very deep difficult at this point to make a decisive position and at this moment i think it's very big i just hope they don't run into the populism type of society in politics ok chris are you optimistic or pessimistic on that point. well of course populism is a problem in other words a kind of authoritarian demagogy and you know dividing people nationally against each other so for instance one issue in the united states has been anti immigration. however it's interesting that the parties in this election cycle are steering clear of that so i'm not sure about the question of populism per se to go back to a point those made
i think well i think this is a very delicate moment in the united states as well isn't it and what i really fear over here is that america running into the populism type of policies and basically that's exactly what happened in japan in what is happening in japan and look where it's brought a species almost two decades we call it last decade but it's almost to last decade so i would say that again it goes back to the very first thing that we were talking about it's very deep difficult at this...
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states and that inequality has its own side effects. meanwhile the nations that said no to the banks toure's into austerity like ice land in scandinavia the scandinavian countries are not only doing fine but they're also seeing lower levels of inequality and thus their economies are doing better and they're not seeing the high levels of under arrest that showing up in greece. here with more about the consequences of inequality is marshall our back economist and fellow in economic economics for peace and security a research associate at the levee institute martial walk and tom thanks for me on thanks for joining us looking around europe in the recent i.m.f. projections are we seeing the collapse of the beginning of the end of globalism well i think that we've been seeing that the last ten fifteen years in fact i would say that the high watermark or globalization of the so-called washington consensus actually came in about the midnight hundred ninety s. and i think that the asian financial crisis was the first warning that shot across the
states and that inequality has its own side effects. meanwhile the nations that said no to the banks toure's into austerity like ice land in scandinavia the scandinavian countries are not only doing fine but they're also seeing lower levels of inequality and thus their economies are doing better and they're not seeing the high levels of under arrest that showing up in greece. here with more about the consequences of inequality is marshall our back economist and fellow in economic economics for...
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here in the united states from coast to coast we have privatized the vote and in doing so we've removed the lynchpin holding together our democracy. several european nations including ireland germany and the netherlands have experimented with and then did electronic voting machines in fact germany's supreme court ruled that evo two machines were unconstitutional and ireland sold theirs for a penny on the dollar as scrap metal but here in the united states we continue to put out more and more evo to machines owned by corporations that seem to have vested political interests that's despite the fact that it's pretty well documented to such machines may have flipped political races in favor of republicans take for example what happened in nebraska in one thousand nine hundred six republican chuck hagel running on an evo d. machine company security security huge contract to sell as machines to nebraska then decided to run for senate in nebraska against ben nelson and guess what despite being a long shot candidate badal won or at least that's what is known voting machines calculator at least
here in the united states from coast to coast we have privatized the vote and in doing so we've removed the lynchpin holding together our democracy. several european nations including ireland germany and the netherlands have experimented with and then did electronic voting machines in fact germany's supreme court ruled that evo two machines were unconstitutional and ireland sold theirs for a penny on the dollar as scrap metal but here in the united states we continue to put out more and more...
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the united states right now is very divided between republicans and democrats who have different ideas about how to solve our economic problems and so very little is getting done in europe germans have a belief that the way to solve the problems is by more saving and more fiscal discipline the southern european countries believe the way to go forward is to promote economic growth and not worry so much at this moment about the debt those differences are very similar to those between american democrats and american republicans well from the latest of french president francois hollande has sat that europe must advance at several speeds so some believe that we would be seeing the inevitable the emergence of a two tariq europe i think there is a possibility i've written about that myself at the moment the levels of productivity in different european countries are large one can compensate for that with a unified set of financial structures but then that will take time for those structures to overcome the differences the instant way to say ok we have differences in productivity let's have a m
the united states right now is very divided between republicans and democrats who have different ideas about how to solve our economic problems and so very little is getting done in europe germans have a belief that the way to solve the problems is by more saving and more fiscal discipline the southern european countries believe the way to go forward is to promote economic growth and not worry so much at this moment about the debt those differences are very similar to those between american...
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states but that doesn't make it not a problem for the united states and the rest of the world how much would a war with iran cost the u.s. economy it's very difficult to tell but you know our estimates that even a modest war would would hurt the u.s. economy in part because it would drive up oil prices even a modest in terms of duration spike in oil prices you know the u.s. recovery right now is quite fragile the world recovery is sort of stalled in places and making modest recovery in others so a big spike in oil prices even if it was only for a few weeks would certainly. damage the u.s. economy if it were a longer extended commitment and big disruption in oil then it would be much more also to the global economy to the global economy and then there's the actual dollar figure to conduct military operations right i mean flying planes dropping bombs these things are are not incredibly expensive but neither are they cheap so it would it would there would be a it would be a substantial costly thing so i want to ask you a question that politicians always reject to answer does israel have n
states but that doesn't make it not a problem for the united states and the rest of the world how much would a war with iran cost the u.s. economy it's very difficult to tell but you know our estimates that even a modest war would would hurt the u.s. economy in part because it would drive up oil prices even a modest in terms of duration spike in oil prices you know the u.s. recovery right now is quite fragile the world recovery is sort of stalled in places and making modest recovery in others...
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for a very big big crisis the united states. actually purged its system of many of its bad banks something that europe has not done at all so it's possible all right but where do you see the euro in the years time. again a very very difficult question. i think the euro is still going to exist i don't think there will be a dissolution of the euro zone. and i would only give even odds on the greeks actually retreating from the euro zone. people are very psychologically invested in the side dhea that the euro is the only path towards stability in the future i mean even in a country like greece which has been so hard hit by the crisis people are even more fearful of retreating from the eurozone because they feel that their savings will be wiped out that their pensions will no longer be viable that there are health care system will lose even further access to the capital that's required to purchase the medicines in the technologies that are needed so there's a lot of fear and very legitimately so so. i can't see the system just unrav
for a very big big crisis the united states. actually purged its system of many of its bad banks something that europe has not done at all so it's possible all right but where do you see the euro in the years time. again a very very difficult question. i think the euro is still going to exist i don't think there will be a dissolution of the euro zone. and i would only give even odds on the greeks actually retreating from the euro zone. people are very psychologically invested in the side dhea...
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then saw exports sport as units which bring revenues to the state. and allow the funding of programs for poverty. everything is part of a balancing act. in this mean where in two thousand and nine state revenues from metallurgy one one point nine three billion pesos basis. tax breaks were one point seven five and fuel subsidies point two four billion. profits were less than the tax breaks and subsidies. anything doesn't give in to the mining corporations so how much money is left over and. why develop the creation of an open pit mine and not prove the conditions for miners. it would only be because it's slow economically room it's a question of cost it's a fantasy your goals. because you know what's happening. let's say we improve the conditions of small miners and they produce a one thousand two hundred dollars an ounce. when the prices fall it's all over. so they're like sleeping. it out once they see good mates when they attack. this happened but if they came to the gold towns to work saying they contribute to sustainable development they need and
then saw exports sport as units which bring revenues to the state. and allow the funding of programs for poverty. everything is part of a balancing act. in this mean where in two thousand and nine state revenues from metallurgy one one point nine three billion pesos basis. tax breaks were one point seven five and fuel subsidies point two four billion. profits were less than the tax breaks and subsidies. anything doesn't give in to the mining corporations so how much money is left over and. why...
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finance had something like fifteen percent of corporate profits in the united states today that share has been roughly forty percent there is just absolutely no justification for this kind of rent seeking off of the rest of the economy you know peter if we if we can go back to you in new york i mean a lot of the austerity issues cut jobs created out of employment actually. right so i think that's been a problem at the same time let's look at the other and one of my favorite statistics is that the average unemployment rate in spain is about twenty two months it's no coincidence that unemployment benefits run out at twenty four months so there's definitely a certain subsector looks like that they wait their twenty two months watching the football and then hey i better go find a job and they find a job and buy one of their buddies gets laid off and goes on his two year semi you know funded vacation so obviously that's a bit of an extreme example but there are problems with the benefits system right it doesn't encourage people to go back to work sometimes it's too you know beneficial that
finance had something like fifteen percent of corporate profits in the united states today that share has been roughly forty percent there is just absolutely no justification for this kind of rent seeking off of the rest of the economy you know peter if we if we can go back to you in new york i mean a lot of the austerity issues cut jobs created out of employment actually. right so i think that's been a problem at the same time let's look at the other and one of my favorite statistics is that...
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to the united states or has it become a liability new orleans for i can give you is america still in their support of israel because whether israel is an asset for us you have to ask them ok though. not at all sure if we should continue with the kind of one side the strategy of the israeli government siding with the harshest. new york american philosophy is. the more the most difficult right wing. merciless capitalist economy on one hand and being very very conservative views of the enemies and powers and fears and threats etc these are some other stuff israel will not for long will be above the political debate in that it states of america it will be an asset for the republicans and a liability for the democrats in body in the media will be totally removed from the american political equations the severe strategic mistake led by the israeli prime minister binyamin at the neo israel should remain out of any political nuance in america partisan political nuance in america. thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. leisure. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the
to the united states or has it become a liability new orleans for i can give you is america still in their support of israel because whether israel is an asset for us you have to ask them ok though. not at all sure if we should continue with the kind of one side the strategy of the israeli government siding with the harshest. new york american philosophy is. the more the most difficult right wing. merciless capitalist economy on one hand and being very very conservative views of the enemies and...
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states and britain and europe be had major allies just figure out what to do. r.t. also spoke to the iraqi prime minister to get his stance on the development of the syrian conflict his interview and more extensive analysis. plus. a small farmer taking out of biotech giant as the u.s. supreme court agrees to review his appeal had online for details. police have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of program form demonstrators in bahrain's capital manama the unrest came as protesters marched in a funeral procession for an activist who died in prison after allegedly being denied proper medical treatment people in the crowd began throwing rocks and petrol bombs when security officers tried to stop them doherty's have been cracking down on the opposition for twenty months but man it continue hitting the streets demanding equal rights and an end to the sunni minority around eighty people have been killed and thousands arrested including prominent human rights activists if you are job is now serving three years in. as for extending it an illegal demon
states and britain and europe be had major allies just figure out what to do. r.t. also spoke to the iraqi prime minister to get his stance on the development of the syrian conflict his interview and more extensive analysis. plus. a small farmer taking out of biotech giant as the u.s. supreme court agrees to review his appeal had online for details. police have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of program form demonstrators in bahrain's capital manama the unrest came as...
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true it's true that i represent the the residents of the district of columbia the capital city of the united states and it's true that i voted in committee and it's true that i have every privilege of every other member but when it comes to the final vote on the house floor. district residents have never had voting rights and d.c. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton came close to winning equal rights for the district back in two thousand and nine only because. the ferias amendment that would have wiped out all our gun laws was a tax to the bill do i not have the house vote right now. opponents of granting d.c. citizens voting rights point to the constitution it states quote representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding indians not taxed but the interpretation has been widely debated i feel confident that the courts would find that there are no citizens of the united states who should not have representation in the national legislature that would that would separate us out from e
true it's true that i represent the the residents of the district of columbia the capital city of the united states and it's true that i voted in committee and it's true that i have every privilege of every other member but when it comes to the final vote on the house floor. district residents have never had voting rights and d.c. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton came close to winning equal rights for the district back in two thousand and nine only because. the ferias amendment that would...
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can is very different than the united states and i know every time i'm on here you say canadians love their health care i have different stories from people who work up in canada who are american citizens who work up there who have been told when they go to a hospital you know merican says go back we all were treated before we can relocate and money together to protect ourselves from crime from fire why not a body ten second so we're going to i just i don't believe in work it's a much different thing crime and fire is a service that the government needs to provide to in a very real time because you're calling nine one you need something to come health care is much broader than that and if the government infringes it just one more way they're infringing always a pleasure thanks a lot for coming on a time when it comes to health care the united states has a lot to learn in fact it has a lot to learn from the nation of rwanda here's tom state. ben franklin framus lee said at the end of the constitutional convention seven hundred eighty seven that if we don't hang together we shall surely
can is very different than the united states and i know every time i'm on here you say canadians love their health care i have different stories from people who work up in canada who are american citizens who work up there who have been told when they go to a hospital you know merican says go back we all were treated before we can relocate and money together to protect ourselves from crime from fire why not a body ten second so we're going to i just i don't believe in work it's a much different...
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states great britain had a particular view based on their view of historic experience of what was going to happen you know when they went into these countries you know secured their military clothes and then attempt to skew their political goals and that turned out to be wrong it's very much more complicated than i thought until the fundamental problem i faced was was you know ok initially they would i want quiet. decisive victories but the military campaign had to continue in various forms and the continuation of military camp by tended to conflict with the political goals the democratization of what's not such so they found themselves you know have a whole series of contradictions complications which you know the result was in the afghan case they were drawing the chances you know there's a good chance the taliban may will make a comeback so so what has been the result of ten years of war in afghanistan exactly if iraq is not a very stable country at this point stable is a. that doesn't apply to afghanistan addle and then you know we hear a lot of talk about new possibilities of going
states great britain had a particular view based on their view of historic experience of what was going to happen you know when they went into these countries you know secured their military clothes and then attempt to skew their political goals and that turned out to be wrong it's very much more complicated than i thought until the fundamental problem i faced was was you know ok initially they would i want quiet. decisive victories but the military campaign had to continue in various forms and...
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the vast majority will not do so i think the united states at the moment is a very polarized nation and there's a considerable amount of evidence from the polls that this year in particular the number of persuadable voters is very small but those persuadable voters are absolutely critical to the outcome that is the segment that both these candidates are trying desperately to change to bring over to their side on the basis alone i would expect mitt romney to get some kind of a gain in the opinion polls from this debate maybe it will only be two three four percentage points but remember that is roughly the size of president obama's pulling lead at the moment so we could easily be looking at a situation where on the back of last night's debate mitt romney makes this race a dead heat with an ok david i think to kind of extrapolate from what you said earlier the fact checkers are going all over romney right now ok but he made a lot of mistakes right now but kind of plays into your theory now now the obama people have a lot to chew on. yeah yeah i think he he was he was certainly enlarging th
the vast majority will not do so i think the united states at the moment is a very polarized nation and there's a considerable amount of evidence from the polls that this year in particular the number of persuadable voters is very small but those persuadable voters are absolutely critical to the outcome that is the segment that both these candidates are trying desperately to change to bring over to their side on the basis alone i would expect mitt romney to get some kind of a gain in the...
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states you had people the bonus army they were literally camped from the lawn of the white. house all the way down to the potomac river you know tens of thousands of people and fact president hoover had douglas mcarthur you know come in with tanks and on horseback and try to burn him out and unsuccessfully so there was this enormous pressure that was happening people were in the streets because it was so bad and i think frankly if obama hadn't done his stimulus and if we were still losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month like we were when bush left office and you know the first month or so the obama administration before the before the obama policies really kicked in that we would be in the streets right now like greece's and like we were in one thousand nine hundred two so one is not that bad here in two in greece and in most of europe what you find is that you know more than half and it varies from country to country in germany i believe it's well over eighty percent logs in and even countries over ninety percent of the workforce is unionized and the unions serve as a w
states you had people the bonus army they were literally camped from the lawn of the white. house all the way down to the potomac river you know tens of thousands of people and fact president hoover had douglas mcarthur you know come in with tanks and on horseback and try to burn him out and unsuccessfully so there was this enormous pressure that was happening people were in the streets because it was so bad and i think frankly if obama hadn't done his stimulus and if we were still losing seven...
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states of america and it's two things firstly i'd like to see benefits begin to be time limited the assumption the assumption this is going to apply in all cases but the assumption is you need a short amount of help you've suddenly lost your job you need a little bit of help to talk through perhaps for six months or so maybe for a year before you find another job that's the concept behind and you need to work hard in those few months to find another job but i'd also like to like to bring into the fact that you would be eligible for community work because what's happening at the moment with the government is that by all royally addressing a ludicrous problem in our welfare system which is that some people are actually better off claiming welfare benefits than they are taking on the job they take on a job that's not particularly well paid suddenly all these benefits get guillotines and before you know it you're working forty hours a week and you actually have less money in your pocket than you would do if you filled in some government forms that night but i think there needs to be ano
states of america and it's two things firstly i'd like to see benefits begin to be time limited the assumption the assumption this is going to apply in all cases but the assumption is you need a short amount of help you've suddenly lost your job you need a little bit of help to talk through perhaps for six months or so maybe for a year before you find another job that's the concept behind and you need to work hard in those few months to find another job but i'd also like to like to bring into...
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certain united states is a defeated president charges would be a defeat and a demoralization of those who wish to go a different economic group and would be a reaffirmation of what margaret thatcher said once upon a time that there is no alternative. let's leave it right there thank you very much mr bill fletcher author and senior scholar with the institute for polity policy studies for your thought on this thank you very much. the russian man remains in a serious condition after being brutally beaten in a canadian then detention center dinies telly karf was arrested after his classmate in a canadian language school said he had been threatened by him the charges were later dropped i spoke to them is a sister and she say's canada's authorities are doing nothing to help their family . very often it's happening all we are and it's been an awful lot but i sit in with. them in the work i mean we're not. going to not go with him and didn't try to reach. you know they're not commenting anything in the absolutely they are not helping with. they trying to control this i'm almost there they're
certain united states is a defeated president charges would be a defeat and a demoralization of those who wish to go a different economic group and would be a reaffirmation of what margaret thatcher said once upon a time that there is no alternative. let's leave it right there thank you very much mr bill fletcher author and senior scholar with the institute for polity policy studies for your thought on this thank you very much. the russian man remains in a serious condition after being brutally...
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states so she joins me now from our new york studios so great to have you with us thanks for joining us thank you for having me. your. your father or your your father was walter. my great uncle was walter my grandfather was victor your grandfather was victor ok great walter played. an outsized role in my life in childhood i grew up in lansing michigan and fifty's and sixty's and you know it was a u.a.w. town and it was just. everybody knew walter. it was incredible of him and of these battles and let me let me just first of all what does german socialism have to do with the story of these three brothers. well we dip into that for a very minimal time at the beginning of the film they are you know the family the brothers are of german roots and they we begin the story of the film with these three brothers growing up in wheeling west virginia their father was an immigrant from germany and he he instilled in them this german socialism in the sense of taking care of your neighbor and understanding that the workers blue collar workers must have some given rights in the workplace they shoul
states so she joins me now from our new york studios so great to have you with us thanks for joining us thank you for having me. your. your father or your your father was walter. my great uncle was walter my grandfather was victor your grandfather was victor ok great walter played. an outsized role in my life in childhood i grew up in lansing michigan and fifty's and sixty's and you know it was a u.a.w. town and it was just. everybody knew walter. it was incredible of him and of these battles...
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states we don't independent state we have to remind ourselves that we can take our own decisions and what we're going to see in the future is deepening trouble they'll be more slaughter because of this whole of this fictitious fictitious aims of the war was seen to collapse happening now there is no possibility that we can train the afghan people and army and police the poor to fight their own people who will kill brother afghans for for a corrupt election read election rigging dupré the president or to defend the interests of a foreign country it can't happen you say that ministers are keeping soldiers in afghanistan to protect their own reputation but how does the deaths of more soldiers protect anyone's reputation the official attitude is we must protect our reputations against our previous mistakes and end the war so that history will judge the politicians made the right decisions in fact we've been making the wrong decisions for many years you maintain that what britain is doing is arming and training its future enemies and i suppose there's a historical precedent for that ther
states we don't independent state we have to remind ourselves that we can take our own decisions and what we're going to see in the future is deepening trouble they'll be more slaughter because of this whole of this fictitious fictitious aims of the war was seen to collapse happening now there is no possibility that we can train the afghan people and army and police the poor to fight their own people who will kill brother afghans for for a corrupt election read election rigging dupré the...
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united states and its nato allies they want to be a scientist she destroyed it exhausts so and the rebel. so why should they on in the sea and if you just. do date. this months just romney you have these two giants like heads of state trying to see to do anything they can to destroy the government in syria so. it's not syria not on this. remember you can always go to r.c. dot com to find more stories pictures and analysis as well as catch up on anything you've missed on air here's a taste of what's lined up for you there right now french researchers turn to the ancient art of alchemy as gold prices soar saying they can turn water into the precious metal. and statewide identity theft a foreign hacker steals three point six million social security numbers in the u.s. state of south carolina affecting three out of four residents. out of the frying pan and into the fire a humanitarian crisis for the residents who fled the libyan town of bani walid is looming as they've now found themselves stranded in the desert they're running out of fuel and food while the siege of the former boston of the
united states and its nato allies they want to be a scientist she destroyed it exhausts so and the rebel. so why should they on in the sea and if you just. do date. this months just romney you have these two giants like heads of state trying to see to do anything they can to destroy the government in syria so. it's not syria not on this. remember you can always go to r.c. dot com to find more stories pictures and analysis as well as catch up on anything you've missed on air here's a taste of...
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states and britain european nato allies to figure out what to do what we need urgently right now is a peace conference certainly it's up to china and russia because they're the only people stopping the full scale war the kind of war that will only help the forces it looks like such as al-qaeda united states is again supporting al-qaeda and turkey mr goodere one should know much better than to try and help al qaeda he's been doing his best to fight the forces that are all through his presence. and that we also spoke to the iraqi prime minister to get his stance on the development of the syrian conflict his interview and more extensive analysis standing by for you right now at r.t. dot com plus hundreds of pakistani activists hit the streets to vent their anger over the ongoing on bodmin by u.s. drones you can go online to learn much much more. this is arts he now police if used water cannons and tear gas to disperse hundreds of prover form and demonstrate it's in black rains capital manama the unrest came as protesters marched in a few. procession for an activist who died in prison a
states and britain european nato allies to figure out what to do what we need urgently right now is a peace conference certainly it's up to china and russia because they're the only people stopping the full scale war the kind of war that will only help the forces it looks like such as al-qaeda united states is again supporting al-qaeda and turkey mr goodere one should know much better than to try and help al qaeda he's been doing his best to fight the forces that are all through his presence....
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that so there's a much broader debate in the united states in t.v. channels and newspapers and almost every day you can have a knowledge of what they have what impact does it have when the political parties agree that they like the status quo with campaign financing they can only use their way i mean there's no matter what the public says it doesn't matter what the probably about but you know why it's i mean of course you can say is that they all agreed they don't agree so democrats don't like the new law so that you don't have to tell if you are a political organization we're still going to the money they will say you have money they don't tell anybody where they got it from you it's difference how both of you write for us how the. campaign the issue of campaign finance has been complicated by decision of the united states supreme court called citizens united which held that there's a first amendment right for corporations labor unions to spend unlimited amounts of money as long as they don't coordinate it with a particular candidate the coordinatio
that so there's a much broader debate in the united states in t.v. channels and newspapers and almost every day you can have a knowledge of what they have what impact does it have when the political parties agree that they like the status quo with campaign financing they can only use their way i mean there's no matter what the public says it doesn't matter what the probably about but you know why it's i mean of course you can say is that they all agreed they don't agree so democrats don't like...
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states in the former u.s.s.r. of fighting battles at sea in the air and on the ground do we got there but everybody's dead this video game is based on the actual events of october one thousand nine hundred sixty two a period of confrontation between then u.s. president john kennedy and soviet leader nikita for short in response to the american deployment of ballistic missiles in turkey targeted that may just soviet cities the soviet union retaliated the stationing their own missiles in cuba about time the world found itself one step away from the start of global nuclear war. the way of life in this small village never changes that's why the appearance of any newcomer is outskirts is a big event. when the first soviet specialists came to the village in august one thousand nine hundred sixty two the locals were told to keep their mouths shut. a large plot of land in the village outskirts was fenced off with barbed wire what went on inside that enclosure was kept secret for a long time today an old bunker is in ruins
states in the former u.s.s.r. of fighting battles at sea in the air and on the ground do we got there but everybody's dead this video game is based on the actual events of october one thousand nine hundred sixty two a period of confrontation between then u.s. president john kennedy and soviet leader nikita for short in response to the american deployment of ballistic missiles in turkey targeted that may just soviet cities the soviet union retaliated the stationing their own missiles in cuba...
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the president of united states and you're going to raise that from large corporations and wealthy individuals in the case of mitt romney wealth attracts wealth the republican candidate has a reported net worth of two hundred million dollars. according to the center for responsive politics the top eight financial contributors to romney's campaign are wall street banks with employees from goldman sachs bank of america and morgan stanley rounding out the top three. this is a by the homeowner changes come to america. in two thousand and eight for aco bamma became the largest beneficiary of wall street backing in u.s. election history. receiving more than forty two million dollars from the finance insurance and real estate sectors it's hard to believe that smart rational guys and big companies with huge research departments and a real his standing in the society are going to give that much money and expect nothing in return so their donation is probably not a charity since becoming president obama's justice department hasn't prosecuted one person in connection to the two thousand and eight financi
the president of united states and you're going to raise that from large corporations and wealthy individuals in the case of mitt romney wealth attracts wealth the republican candidate has a reported net worth of two hundred million dollars. according to the center for responsive politics the top eight financial contributors to romney's campaign are wall street banks with employees from goldman sachs bank of america and morgan stanley rounding out the top three. this is a by the homeowner...
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apology have put the united states in a horrendous position that might lead to future wars and he's completely abandon israel and thrown her under the bus so where i agree with romney is our standing in the world was not helped by being nice and being naive and being apologetic and i'm very pro israel and i believe the united states of america must always be very pro israel and that's where i stand with mitt romney ok take a penny i'm going to go to you in washington what do you want to react to what wayne just said there. well it would be nice to know if we actually knew it mitt romney actually stood for i mean similar to where he is on the domestic policy we still don't have a clear picture of where he is on the foreign policy i mean again his speech after speech is just more about platitudes than it actually is specifics and he says he disagrees with barack obama but when you look at his actual what he does actually say when he gets to just as sampling of details it is it is similar to what the president said he says you know the president needs to be tougher on iran what are you going to d
apology have put the united states in a horrendous position that might lead to future wars and he's completely abandon israel and thrown her under the bus so where i agree with romney is our standing in the world was not helped by being nice and being naive and being apologetic and i'm very pro israel and i believe the united states of america must always be very pro israel and that's where i stand with mitt romney ok take a penny i'm going to go to you in washington what do you want to react...
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where i would agree with penny is that is that the united states is fatigued and we're bankrupt where i disagree with penny is that block obama isn't getting us to the right place he's the one that got us involved in libya and it all backfired why are we supporting the rebels in libya who are backed by al qaeda the united states and all welled up coming on us with the attack going to sway me to the release of these very. very and i wasn't talking weeks ago was a successful intervention penny go ahead. now but i mean but you apply that now i mean you're from others that said well where is his leadership now in syria they want the same kind of thing they want to arm the rebels in syria and end up in a tragic situation so you have to do these things very delicately the world i agree with them but here's my point so you. go ahead in london. the world is looking to america for something better i mean look what's happening now at around china when china is threatening nations around the around the seas there's a threatening islands there the world looks to america the world doesn't look to
where i would agree with penny is that is that the united states is fatigued and we're bankrupt where i disagree with penny is that block obama isn't getting us to the right place he's the one that got us involved in libya and it all backfired why are we supporting the rebels in libya who are backed by al qaeda the united states and all welled up coming on us with the attack going to sway me to the release of these very. very and i wasn't talking weeks ago was a successful intervention penny go...
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states once again if we just stay organized and act. if. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
states once again if we just stay organized and act. if. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
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states it's the same of colleges but what has happened in the united states. especially recently is that there are some special factors in this political system that have pushed that party out of alignment with part with the other other kinds of parties and it has to do i think with. the desperate fiscal situation of the united states where as everybody feels that the future holds only bad news and the where is the there's an old saying that politics is a story of of who gets what when and how well now we're debating who will be disappointed and by how much and i think that there are coalitions forming in the conservative coalition for more rapidly in intensity to make sure we are going to push the burden of adjustment off our people onto other people are people being the richer the older and the whiter and and and that doesn't seem to be working well in the short term it is it is working and that the republicans in two thousand and ten did very well in out on that over. well what is the what is the ryan plan the ryan plan says the burden of adjustment is goin
states it's the same of colleges but what has happened in the united states. especially recently is that there are some special factors in this political system that have pushed that party out of alignment with part with the other other kinds of parties and it has to do i think with. the desperate fiscal situation of the united states where as everybody feels that the future holds only bad news and the where is the there's an old saying that politics is a story of of who gets what when and how...